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GNUmed 0.4.4 released

GNUmed EMR for medical offices has been updated to version 0.4.4. Fixes include reenabled path sanity check that fell off when fixing Windows and a fix that makes recent notes in SOAP plugin copy-able for pasting. A new Live-CD has been released as well. More info can be gotten from

http://wiki.gnumed.de

OpenEMR releases version 3.0

The OpenEMR project has released version 3.0 on SourceForge. The new release has integrated practice management, improved multi-language support, and E-Prescribing. We have packaged a very easy to install Windows version using Xampp version 1.7.0. Thanks! “Friends of Apache.”

What we have in the works is a Debian package, an RPM package and integration of the HHS required interoperability module, laboratory communication module, and with some infrastructure improvements are hoping to be compatible with CCHIT certification by the end of this summer. Sam Bowen, MD

Updated open source releases within OpenVista project

Medsphere today announced the release of open source code for recently developed components of the comprehensive OpenVista electronic health record (EHR) solution. Medsphere’s open source release, now available for download at www.medsphere.org, includes the OpenVista Interface Domain (OVID), the OpenVista Clinical Information System (CIS) 1.0RC1, and OpenVista Server 1.5SP1.

More details on Medsphere.org with details posted here.

Doctors Raise Doubts on Digital Health Data

The NY Times is reporting on 2 articles to be published in the NEJM. One on a study from the RWJF and the second from the esteemed Mandl-Kohane brain trust out of Harvard. A highlight: “the current health record suppliers as offering pre-Internet era software — costly and wedded to proprietary technology standards that make it difficult for customers to switch vendors and for outside programmers to make upgrades and improvements… encourage the development of an open software platform on which innovators could write electronic health record applications”

WorldVista on Moka5 player virtual machine

Thanks to the installation script by Ignacio Valdes and the patch by Kevin Toppenburg for his GUI Configuration tool, I was able to install WorldVista on a Moka5 virtual machine based on
PCLinuxOS-2007. I did this for my own interest, and I know there are other demos and virtual appliances available for VISTA, but Moka5 makes it very easy to install and run a pre-configured WorldVista server, so I thought I’d share it, in case anyone else is interested. I also have some links to a pre-configured version of the CPRSChart and GUIConfig front ends that should be able to connect to the server if run on the same machine hosting the Moka5/PCLinuxOS-2007 virtual machine. Here is a link to where it can be downloaded:
http://lab.mokafive.com/ListDetail/WorldVista_EMR_on_PCLinuxOS_2007_lab

Medscribbler Commercial Physician Office EMR Goes Open Source

Medscribbler electronic medical record (EMR) uses handwriting recognition on a Tablet PC for a HIPAA compliant computerized medical practice and document management solution.

CEOMike writes: We are about to release in this coming quarter Medscribbler Open Source, initially on Sourceforge, which will have both code and compiled downloads

Screen shots, videos and no obligation online demos are available

CEOMike writes:

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